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(El Lissitzky) Die Kunstismen/Les Ismes De L’Art/The Isms of Art: 1914-1924. Published by El Lissitzky and Hans Arp. Eugen Rentsch Verlag. Erlenbach-Zürich, München und Leipzig. 1925. 46p. 10.25″ x 8″. First edition. Typography by El Lissitzky. Illustrations. Original paper over board covers with design in black, red and cream on front board by El Lissitzky. Black spine. Laid in a black cloth box with a copy of the front cover image recessed in the front; paper title label on spine. Some slight foxing to pages, nevertheless in extremely good condition.

A very good copy of a seminal early Twentieth Century book showing various art movements.

This book gives definitions by well-known artists of the various movements, or forms of art, of the period. They range from Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Abstract, Metaphysicians, Suprematism, Simultanism, Dadaism, Purism, Neoplasticism, Merz, Prooun, Perism, Constructivism, to Abstract Film. The definitions are followed by illustrations of examples of each movement.

Related items: Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009, Illustrators/Artists, El Lissitzky